hey, look---some Time!
Finished a book review this morning and realized that, for now, there is nothing else on the pile requiring immediate reviewing attention. Holy Cow!

So I've been reading: Lynn Abbey's Jerlayne, which I've only had since 1999. And today, because a chance mention got me thinking about it a week ago, I borrowed Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House from the library. It's just about the only book I've ever read that actually scared me. (Okay, movies: "The Birds" did, too--just thinking about that scene in the attic gives me the cauld grue. And I've never seen "Psycho"--no, really! but I bet that would scare me too!)

The movie made from the Jackson novel was more than effectively frightening, too--the original one (I saw it in very effective B&W on tv when I was probably around 8; our tv was B&W, so it may actually be in color. I suppose we could NetFlix it. Actually, that would be an interesting experiment....)

So. I can gorge myself on my own reading, and get some actual big chunks of fiction down, but I also need to pick up some more science writing markets, so time for researching and sending off queries and tearsheets. I have about a month or so before many kids magazines that publish with the school year will be assigning stuff for Sept and October.

And somewhere in there I can frustrate the hell of out myself by jiggering around with the wireless problems on my laptop. Bah. I'd much rather read.